Pravin Dahal
Staff Platform Engineer
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPravin Dahal is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Oslo with 12 years of experience building platform and backend systems across IoT, FinTech, and Energy domains. He has progressed from embedded and web development roles to senior engineering and CTO responsibilities, combining hands-on coding with architectural leadership at companies like Futurehome, Auka, Optimeering, and Coop Norge. Pravin focuses on platform reliability, developer experience, and maintainability—evidenced by systematic documentation improvements he contributed to the widely used google-cloud-python client libraries. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he bridges product needs and engineering pragmatism to deliver scalable solutions. Fluent in cross-functional collaboration, he brings a practical engineering education (B.E. Computer Engineering) and an eye for long-term code health to every project.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. Computer Engineering, B.E. Computer Engineering at Kantipur Engineering College
Nepali, English, Norwegian, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
google-cloud-platform10
python10
documentation10
gcp10
rest-api4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pravin's contributions primarily involved updating client library documentation URLs across multiple Google Cloud service packages within the `google-cloud-python` repository. They systematically corrected links to ensure they pointed to the correct documentation pages and replaced JavaScript-based redirects with direct links, improving accessibility and user experience. This work encompassed various Cloud service APIs, including Asset, Language, RuntimeConfig, Security Center, and others. The consistent application of the same update across multiple documentation files highlights a focus on maintainability and ease of use.
google-cloudpython
coopnorge/helm-base-chart
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 releases, 11 reviews, 64 PRs in 9 months
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